Bhutan's distinctive literary, arts and cultural festival, Mountain Echoes literary festival formally opened to audiences. The ninth edition of the Festival, which is held each year in the picturesque Bhutanese capital of Thimphu is celebrating 50 years of formal diplomatic relations between India and Bhutan this year.Read News

Google doodle has been dedicated to Urdu writer Ismat Chugtai. Back in the 1930s, Chughtai wrote on female sexuality and femininity, middle-class gentility, and class conflict, subjects considered taboo for the age.
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Mahadevi Varma, celebrated Hindi poet, freedom fighter, women's rights activist and educationist, was honoured by Google with a Doodle. In 1982, Mahadevi Varma received the Jnanpith Award for her outstanding contributions to Indian literature on April 27. Read News

President Ram Nath Kovind, inaugurated the World Hindi Secretariat building today on the third day of his visit to Mauritius. He also launched the World Hindi Secretariat&#039;s logo, an Early Digital Learning Programme as well unveiled foundation stones of a social housing project and a large ENT hospital being built with Indian assistance. Read News

Our classical wisdom enshrined in a Sanskrit shloka teaches us that without literature and music the life of human beings would be equivalent to the life of animals. Therefore literature takes us to a higher plane of civility and consciousness.

There is Faiz in the air. Urdu, the 'lost' language of the poets, the hopeless romantics and the ardent idealists, is "re-emerging". Several online Facebook groups are dedicated to varied Urdu poets, and Urdu learning websites such as Rekhta and Urduwallahs are becoming popular. Pakistani soap operas,Read News

Afghanistan, not Kashmir, can be the issue for India and Pakistan to resume a sustainable dialogue, where it will be relatively easier for them to reach agreement on issues like trade and security while ensuring peace for the "volatile" country , says a regional expert.
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Is there any common ground between revolution and romance, as expressed in poetry and music? Lenin didn't think so, admitting he loved hearing a Beethoven sonata, but couldn't listen to music much since it made him want to pat people's heads, though his "devilishly difficult job" called for him to beat their heads instead. But it is not difficult to identify parallels - for one,Read News

Penguin Books India has caved in rather than defend its author Wendy Doniger, philologist and University of Chicago professor, for her book 'The Hindus: An Alternative History'. As per a court-backed settlement with a Delhi-based Hindutva group, it has promised to withdraw all copies in India and pulp them at its own expense within six months.
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Stories about the Second World War or the ruins in Pompeii or even about the old life of Delhi- the upcoming 2014 Jaipur Literature Festival is set to throw a spotlight on history.The seventh edition of the five-day festival scheduled from January 17 at Diggi Palace in Jaipur is expected to see participation from historians across the world.Read News

When Kiran Desai won the Man Booker Prize in 2006 at the age of 35 for her second novel The Inheritance of Loss it created a stir as she was the youngest woman to win Britain&#039;s most prestigious literary prize, awarded annually to a novelist from Britain, Ireland or a Commonwealth country. Read News